Monday Morning Briefing: China's billion dollar tariff threat on U.S. oil
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June 18, 2018
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Global stocks slid and U.S. oil prices slumpedafter Trump announced tariffs on Chinese goods and Beijing responded with similar measures in an escalating trade dispute. China’s threat to impose duties on U.S. oil imports will hit a business that has soared in the last two years, and which is now worth almost $1 billion per month.
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